Baseball and softball seasons come to a crashing halt.

Published 8:00 pm, Monday, May 30, 2011

The Wilton High School baseball and softball seasons came to a crashing halt on Tuesday as the Warriors suffered losses in both Class L tournaments.

Class L Baseball

ND-West Haven 8, Wilton 2

The Warriors jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning before their bats fell silent and a few unlucky breaks and costly mistakes left them 8-2 losers in the first round of the Class L playoffs.

After Kevin O’Connell opened the game with a first-pitch single and Evan Roux reached on a one-out error, clean-up hitter Ryan Phillips drove both Warriors home with a double to left-center, staking Wilton to a two-run lead.

The Warriors tried to make it 3-0 in the second when Brett Phillips singled with two outs, stole second and tried to score on O’Connell’s base hit. He was tagged out at the plate, however.

Notre Dame scored twice in the second to tie the game and added a run in the fourth to take a 3-2 lead.

The Warriors left runners on first and third in the fifth and in the sixth had a run tagged out at second base after straying too far on a ground ball to the left side.

Connor Buhler followed with a single that could have potentially tied the game at three. Instead, Wilton left two more runners on.

Notre Dame exploded for five runs in the sixth to put the game away.

The Warriors finished the season with a 13-8 record.

SOFTBALL

Coincidentally, the Wilton softball team lost by the exact same score to No. 5 ranked Brookfield.

No details of that game were available as of 9:30 p.m., Tuesday night.